Molly Ivins Quotes
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Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!
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I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.
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We shouldn't overdramatize the current disagreements with the Russians. They are real, but they're not really all that threatening. And the notion that we're moving back to some Cold War I think is really an exaggerated judgment.
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An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.
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We still don't know the facts. Prosecutors are looking into it, but it's hard to comment.
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A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
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Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
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But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone
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I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough.
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The most difficult thing has definitely been movies. From a comedian's standpoint, you think being real big is the best thing, but with movies, the screen is huge, you're big anyway! Also, coming from a TV personality - MTV was all about high energy and selling the hottest video - I had to learn to take it down. A lot of characters I'm playing are not necessarily that kind of guy.
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I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.
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I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.
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The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished.
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Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.
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Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.
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We've going to bring back thighs. Enough of these size zeros. Thighs, and back fat, and over-the-belt fat, it's all got to come back again, and we're the ones to do it.
